Alternative Investments
The latest news and developments about alternative investments and how they can help boost portfolio performance and reduce risk
Chess Champ? Hedge Funds May Want You
By Marlene Y. SatterWall Street loves chess, and chess champions and other gaming experts may very well have developed skills that assist them to excel in the kind of analytical decisions required by high-level investing of the type that hedge funds make.
September 29, 2011
Alternatives All the RageNew research has found that 78 percent of all advisors are using alternative investments within client portfolios, according to Cogent Research, mainly for diversification and with some variation related to channel differences and other factors.
September 29, 2011
Vice vs. Nice: Sustainability Debate Pits ‘Tea Party’ Against ‘European Social’ TeamsIn a sometimes feisty Oxford-style debate in New York, portfolio managers and professors sparred over whether socially responsible investment has any business contributing toor subtracting froma companys bottom line.
September 27, 2011
‘Trader’ Alessio Rastani Prays for Recession, Says Millions Will Lose SavingsSome are questioning whether the arrestingly earnest trader is really a member of the Yes Men, anticapitalist activists who impersonate the people they dislike as a means of exposing what they view as the real truth about corporations.
September 27, 2011
Operation Twist Makes REIT ETFs a Good BetAs equity markets struggle to decide whether or not to like Operation Twist, bond markets have clearly pronounced in favor. For clients with a riskierbut not suicidalflair, ETFs are one way to take advantage of what the Fed has to offer.
September 26, 2011
Senate Approves Deal on Spending, Averts ShutdownEnding weeks of political brinkmanship, Congress finessed a dispute over disaster aid Monday night and advanced legislation to avoid a partial government shutdown only days away.
September 26, 2011
My 5 Favorite Alternative Investment FundsOver time, I've come to think of these five mutual funds as some of the best.
September 26, 2011
Fed’s Bernanke Vindicated by ‘Monster’ Bond RallyCall Ben Bernanke crazy, but if he is, bond market returns mean its like a fox. Beating even the 24.4% gain in 2008, actions taken by the Fed have resulted in the biggest bond rally since the mid-90s.